Campie Primary School Short Stories



  Contents

 

  Contents2

  Foreword5

  Primary 7A Collection6

  Drama in the Theatre7

  Lara Adams7

  Forgive Me8

  Imogen Allen8

  The Beauty Salon10

  Joy Archer10

  Chloe & Her Mum12

  Rebecca Baillie12

  The Horse in Danger13

  Ellen Brown13

  Haunted School15

  Emily Cormack15

  Robo-Knee16

  Drew Cotter16

  My Story19

  Leia Dobson19

  Run20

  Amy Foulner20

  The Magic Land22

  Hannah Gordon22

  Shipwrecked24

  Nathan Guthrie24

  My French Adventures25

  Calum Hall25

  The Nightmare27

  Emma Hart27

  Magical Story29

  Jennifer Hood29

  Maxamillion & His Name Home31

  Luke Hunter31

  The Flames!33

  Chloe Hutchison33

  One Way35

  Charlie Jeffery Hood35

  Nobody Knew36

  Taylor Marwick36

  Mission38

  Eve Russell38

  Borg Invasion39

  Lachlan Sloan39

  Trouble In Tokyo40

  Glen Slorance40

  The Great RIKE42

  Danny Stitt42

  Super Spy44

  Jamie Tilbrook44

  Primary 7B Collection45

  PRANKSTAR NINJA…46

  Mason Andrews46

  Wanted for a Mystery Crime48

  Christopher Bennett48

  Haunted House50

  Emily Brown50

  The Egyptian Prince52

  Stuart Burns52

  Mrs Screech and Her Class53

  Emma Clark53

  Mission Russia55

  Ryan Gibson55

  PARALLEL57

  Mark Ingram57

  The Boy, the Dark and the Ghost59

  Jason Jarvis59

  Henry’s Big Adventure60

  Siobhan Kelley60

  The Boy Who Came Back Too Late!62

  Jake Langford62

  Mission: Z3R064

  Cameron Lusty64

  Power Cut!66

  Hannah MacDonald66

  The Director’s Mystery68

  Jamie McDonald68

  I’m Best Friends with a Jelly Baby!70

  Charley Millar70

  THE ALIEN WHO CAME TO EARTH71

  Cameron Mills71

  KILLZONE74

  Callum Mortimer74

  The Evacuation76

  Niamh Paterson76

  Owner Trouble77

  Karla Reid77

  Uptown79

  Amy Sim79

  Louise Smith81

  Spy Monkey83

  Daniel Souness83

  Crystal Ice Palace84

  Blinera Statovci84

  The Tortoise and the Smartie86

  Claire Welsh86

  My Friend’s An Alien!!!!!!88

  Charlotte Williamson88

  Alternative Covers89

  Foreword

  The following short stories were written by Primary 7 pupils of Campie Primary School in Musselburgh, East Lothian in 2012.

  After reading various short story competition entries written by children of a similar age, pupils were invited to write their own short story, on a theme of their choice, and for an audience of their choice, in 500 words or less.

  Enjoy!

  Primary 7A Collection

  Drama in the Theatre

  Lara Adams

  Thump! I sat up straight. My duvet fell off my bed and I tried to grasp for it in the darkness. Thump!! There it went again. The sound was coming from my parents’ theatre. I wondered what they were doing up at this time of night. I checked my clock, 1: 23. WOW… that was late even for my dad and he has been known to stay there for ages.

  I got out of bed and searched for my torch, when I finally found it I turned it on. I opened my bedroom door and it let out a horrible SCREEECH!! I went to my parent’s room to ask what dad was doing in the theatre. “Mum…” I started to say as I walked through the door. I stopped myself short. They were both in bed and fast asleep.

  Panic rippled through me. Who was in the theatre? And more importantly, why were they in there? A low whirring noise came from the theatre. I jumped up in fright! After a few seconds I said to myself “ Right Cat, you are gonna go into the theatre, find out who it is in there and then if it’s bad phone the police and wake up mum and dad!”

  As I walked through the connecting door the whirring noise got much louder. It came from the side of the stage - the costume cupboard. An overwhelming sense of fear washed through me. What if the person was armed?! Would they harm me?! I heard bumps and some muttering. A hand reached out onto the stage and dropped a bundle of clothes into a... laundry bag. WHAT? I tiptoed across the stage and turned around the corner...

  “What??”I shouted! It was Esme. What was she doing up at this time?

  “Oh hi Cat, I didn’t expect to see you here!” she said cheerily as if it was perfectly normal to be up at this time of night washing clothes.

  Esme suddenly frowned. “I hope I didn’t wake you up Cat I tried to be as quiet as I could. I just woke up and remembered I hadn’t washed the clothes for tomorrow’s matinee and I felt I should with your parents letting us stay in the bottom floor of your house and all. I mean I only got down a  couple of minutes ago you know, I wouldn’t want to keep you up but it’s almost like the turban from Prince Ali’s costume has been stolen it’s taking so long to find!” she joked cheerily.

  “It’s fine Esme, the theatre wouldn’t be the same without you guys helping backstage. Just don’t come up here again at this time of night!” ‘Oh…’ I thought to myself. “Esme , did you say you only got down a couple of minutes ago?”

  “Yep!” she answered.

  Forgive Me

  Imogen Allen

  “You are NOT wearing that, you need to make a good first impression.”

  But mum” I shouted back at her, I want to make MY first impression. I want to tell people who I really am, I don't want to be in a mask of disguise.”

  She looks me up and down, from my scabby leather boots, my tight green jeans with a baggy Fairtrade top tucked in. My denim jacket clings tightly to my arms. My hair had been pulled out of my tight plaits and now an auburn frizz surrounds my scowling face.

  Sighing heavily she gives the look that says it all. ‘Why, are you my daughter. What did I ever do?’ I turned away, was it my fault I didn't fit in, or was just different? I wanted to be myself but I was constantly being forced into a mask, being told who I was and what I would become. My life had been written out for me and I so badly wanted to change it but was struggling at the end of things never moving forward. The door slammed, and I heard my mum shout “Stay in your room Beatrice Quimby until you know what you are and how little you mean in the world, you can't change anything.”

  I opened my mouth to speak but no words came out. My eyes started to water and a lump formed in my throat. No. I wouldn't give in, sticks and stones break my bones but words will never hurt me. I sat down at my desk and picked up a pencil. I gripped so hard my knuckles turned white. Then I drew. My hand flew and my thoughts whizzed. All my anger was taken out on the picture. I got lost in my own world not caring when the paper ripped or the pencil blunted. I drew and drew and drew. Then I stopped. I gazed do
wn at my drawing.

  What had I done?

  I suddenly noticed the silence in my room, not the silence where things were still going on. This was real silence, no wind, no distant car engines, no hum of the radiator. No nothing. I thought of my mum lying on the floor, her blond hair surrounding her immaculate face. I ran downstairs and as I reached the bottom everything seemed to turn a hundred times slower, my head was spinning. To my horror I saw my sketch come to life, my mum stood there with her back turned. “Mum move.” I shouted desperately. She didn't flinch. My last sketch flashed in my mind. I couldn't let this happen to her, she was my mum. I saw her giant ceramic cupcake spinning towards her. She had won many prizes for it. It was perfect. Her life was perfect but I was ruining it for her. Without thinking I jumped in front of her. Then. Black.

  White. All I could see. All I could feel. I opened my eyes and it hit me. Pain. I looked down at my hands, they were all bandaged up. I was in hospital.

  Then I saw her. Mum, her head in her hands silently weeping. She had replaced her smart suit for an oversized Fairtrade top and a tight denim jacket. She looked up at me and her face spoke a thousand words.

  Forgive me.

  The Beauty Salon

  Joy Archer

  “Next please, what can I do for you?”

  “Oh, I just came to have a word with you Ms Amy Styles.”

  “What about?” replied Amy.

  “Just come with me and you’ll find out.” said the well-dressed man.

  When the man had left Amy was both scared and excited with what he had said. Was this princess going to like her beauty salon? Apparently, a princess also wanted something special done, but she had no idea what... She could hear the noise outside, it must be her! Gracefully the beautiful princess walked into the salon and sat on one of the seats waiting patiently.

  Amy went over to the princess, curtsied and said “Can I help you your majesty?” while the smell of sweet rose perfume drifted up her nose.

  “Oh yes darling could I please have my hair done with some of your best shampoo..... please?” said the princess.

  “Yes that should be fine. Come and have a seat over here, your majesty.”

  “Thank-you!” squeaked the princess as she followed Amy over to the seat in front of the mirror. Amy ran into the storage room and searched for her best shampoo. Then she saw it and grabbed the bottle! The label had been ripped but she could just make out the word ‘HAIR…’

  She walked back and said “In my hands is the best shampoo you could ever find and I’m hundred percent sure you’ll love it!”

  The princess replied “I hope so.”

  Amy started sploshing it on, generously scrubbing the princess’s beautiful fine hair so it would a better effect.

  The princess suddenly asked “What shampoo is it?” Amy didn’t know what to say so she just said, “It’s a big surprise. Could you put your head under the tap your majesty?”

  Amy again tried to see what type of shampoo it was, as it completely smelled unusual and completely stinked! That's when she saw it! On the bottom ‘Warning: Contents of this bottle will make hair fall out.’ She really didn’t know what to do and began to feel so worried! Especially considering this was a princess’s hair she was washing. Petrified and so overwhelmed with sadness she forgot to tell the princess to take her head out of the basin.

  When she finally lifted her head out her lovely hair was falling out in clumps. You could see it for miles!

  The princess enquired “Excuse me but you could have told me to bring my head up, or is that too much to ask”?

  “Sorry.” mumbled Amy.

  “It’s okay. This smells really odd, but I quite like it!”

  “Come over here your Majesty and I’ll dry your hair.” Amy said.

  The princess walked over to the dryer and sat down. Amy started to dry her hair trying to do it as fast as possible as she could see all the hair falling out. Eventually it was done and the princess asked “How much do I owe you?”

  “I’ll give it to you for free, you deserve it…”

  “Thank you!” She picked up her expensive designer hand bag and walked out. Amy couldn’t stop looking as her hair continued to fall out all over the shop floor.

  Chloe & Her Mum

  Rebecca Baillie

  Walking swiftly in the café, Chloe thought to herself ‘it’s really busy in here! I’m going to have a hard, hard, hard day.’ Even though she served her customers it still got busier and busier like horses running in a stampede!

  It got even busier in the slightest moment but suddenly Chloe saw her mum walking in the cafe looking very nervous, in fact she looked terrible.

  Chloe was close to her break but until then questions started going through her mind, ‘Why is she here?’, ‘Is it bad news?’… Chloe started to get really worried, ‘Maybe she’s not well.’ She thought.

  Chloe’s mum suddenly stood up and shouted “I’m having a baby!” Chloe let her mouth drop to the floor, she couldn’t believe it!

  The Horse in Danger

  Ellen Brown

  “Humph!” sighed Buttons. She was lying in a field with no food or drink getting picked on by the other horses. “At this time I’m usually being whipped and attacked… at least not tonight!” moaned Buttons. She started to doze off to sleep when she heard a car coming. It was coming closer and closer… then the car came to a halt a couple of metres from her.

  Buttons opened her eyes and saw the car with a trailer attached. She stood up and jumped back a few steps. A figure stepped out the dark, black jeep but she couldn’t make out what it was. The figure moved towards the trailer and a few seconds later Buttons heard a loud BANG!

  “Huh what’s that?” cried Buttons.

  “Come on horsey, I won't hurt you!” whispered the dark figure.

  The figure brought out a black object with a brown wooden handle. Buttons jumped back in shock. She was shaking like jelly. “I can’t move!” cried Buttons. She felt something sharp touching her leg. Her eyes began to shut and she realised she couldn’t open them again. The figure had shot her. The object turned out to be a tranquilizer gun.  

  Buttons very slowly began to wake up… looking around, all she could see was a silver walls and tall windows surrounding her… her eyes started to droop again… A long time later she was still asleep… she started fluttering her eyes.

  Finally she was totally awake. “Where am I?” screeched Buttons panicking. She felt someone rubbing her head and neck. She looked around and noticed a blue horse cover on her back. ‘Ah… heat!’ thought Buttons pleasingly. She looked in front of her and she had her favourite food: mint suppies and lots of water to drink. She put her head in the bowl of food and wouldn’t stop eating, she thought she would never fill her belly. While chewing Buttons began to take in her surroundings. There was a very bright hallway with lots of different animals in cages. A small man could be seen holding a thin, sharp, shiny object. Buttons jumped back shaking like jelly. The man opened her cage and walked in, shutting the door behind him. He took the food and drink away and took the cover off very carefully. “OH NO! WHAT’S HE DOING?!” screamed Buttons helplessly. The man had a sharp pointy object in his hand and blue gloves on. He started getting closer and closer until he couldn’t come any further.

  The man took the object and cut Buttons long grey hair. Buttons relaxed and let out a sigh of relief, she thought he was going to hurt her. Looking around again, buttons could see a sign that read ‘Welcome to your local Vets. Please keep all animals in their cages’. The male vet tried to get her standing, by wrapping his arms around her neck and pulling her up. When she was up on her feet the vet went for a lead rope (a rope that you wrap on the horse's neck to get it to move without it running away). He disappeared for a few minutes then came back with a couple of juicy orange carrots. He put the lead rope round Buttons head and persuaded her to walk out of her cage.

  Suddenly, Buttons heard a car starting outside. ‘Not again
!’ Buttons thought to herself. The vet walked Buttons into a trailer and let her off the rope and shut the door. He walked to the front of the car and stepped in and drove off. Sometime later, the vet came and opened the trailer door and attached the lead rope on Button’s neck. He walked her into a stable with her favourite food. He let her off the lead and she ran into the stable. Waiting for her, was a proud looking lady dressed in beautiful riding clothes with a large lump of sugar in her hand.

  “I think I’ll like it here.” neighed Buttons contently.

  Haunted School

  Emily Cormack

  Hi! I’m Jacob Livingston and read this if you dare because this is a story about my haunted school, St James High. I’m here to share my frightening story with you.

  One morning when I woke up I felt really ill but I still had to go to school. I went downstairs and ate my breakfast. I left my house and I was walking down the street and guess what I saw? My teacher (how awkward is that, my teacher lives in the same street as me). I called out to him

  “Can you please tell me more about the school?”

  He answered “Jason the only thing I can tell you is that our school is haunted.”

  “Really?” said Jason “Aww please tell me more….”

  His teacher sighed “Fine, the only story I know about the school is...” He paused for a moment “Wait… why do I have to tell you?” he yelled “I’m your teacher, isn’t that enough?!”

  “Please!! Mr Edwards tell me the story, I won’t ask for anything else.”

  (to be continued)

  Robo-Knee

  Drew Cotter

  “Steve-O! Steve-O!” Stephen blushed.

  “Stop it Papa!” said Stephen softly punching his Papa.

  “I’m just getting you pumped for the final Stephen, nothing wrong with that!”

  The road they were on twisted and turned and it made Stephen even queasier. “So, do you think your knee will be alright?” said Papa glancing at Stephen.

  “I don’t know but I remember what the doctor said, that scared me.”

  “Och, don’t worry pal, you’ll be alright!”

  “Here we are!” Papa said excitedly. “You better get your football boots on.”

  “I’m on it” but Stephen couldn’t take bending over very well due to the twisted road that they were speeding along five minutes before. “I’ll be off now Papa”

  “Good luck Stephen, you’ll need it.”

  “Thanks Papa, BYE!” Stephen ran onto the pitch like a boxer to a ring.

  “Hey, Steve-O,” Shouted his football coach “I haven’t seen you since the accident!” Stephen had a horrible flashback of the time he broke his knee. “How did you recover so fast?”

  “Well Coach, take a look at this baby!” Stephen’s coach examined Stephen’s mechanical right knee. He noticed it had five different levels. Average, normal, strong, super-human and overdrive. “So now whenever I’m in a spot, I can kick it into overdrive!” Stephen said jumping into a karate pose.

  “Right, I think I can fit you into the striker position.”

  “Ok boys,” said the referee biting his whistle and stroking his slick black hair “I want a good clean game, no passbacks or tackling from behind, I think you know all the rules ok? Right let’s begin.”

  Stephen ran to his position exactly in the middle of the pitch. The opposing team won the coin toss. They are going first... The other team passed it from the middle of the pitch and it reached their chubby midfielder soon after running ungracefully he passed it back to their striker and panted as if he had just ran a marathon. Their striker was good, he was running rings around Stephens team’s defenders and scoring soon after. They’re good, but my knee can do better. Stephen thought to himself. He switched his knee into ‘very strong’ mode. Their striker was just too good, Stephen’s team couldn’t keep up with him even Stephen couldn’t quite catch up to him! But luckily, they managed to hold him back to only scoring 1 goal in the first half. “Half Time!” shouted the referee after blowing his whistle. Stephen’s team walked off the pitch solemnly.

  “C’mon guys, that wasn’t bad, you just need to keep your heads up and turn those frowns upside-down! It’s only one goal!”

  “Thanks, Coach,” said Stephen looking up at his Coach “That really helps.”

  “Now c’mon, let’s get us a goal!”

  “YEAH!!!” shrieked the team sounding very optimistic.

  “Right boys back on!” shouted the referee and the boys walked back onto the pitch stretching their arms and legs. The whistle blew yet again for the second half to start. Luckily, Stephen’s team had the kick off. They passed it back to their goalkeeper and he blootered it to the whole other side of the pitch whilst Stephen ran up behind the flying ball. But the kick was too hard, it reached their goalkeeper and he passed it to their chubby midfielder. Stephen got so frustrated so he tackled the midfielder from behind. He didn’t know what came over him, what could possess him to do such a thing? It must be my knee... thought Stephen “PEEP!!!” the referee blew his whistle. “SINBIN, 30 MINUTES!”

  “No! There’s only 35 minutes left!” shouted Stephens’ coach

  “MY DECISION IS CLEAR! PEEP!” Stephen walked off the pitch to his coach.

  “I didn’t mean it, I, I... I swear!” whimpered Stephen

  “I know, I know, it’s ok we’ll get you back as quick as we can” encouraged coach.

  “Thanks, coach” said Stephen hugging his coach and sniffling. The opposing team scored and Stephen’s team put their heads down yet again. But they managed to keep them back from scoring another. “5 minutes left Stephen, time to shine!” Stephen had a flashback of what the doctor told him when his knee was installed. Only turn it to ‘super-human’ in an emergency . Stephen thought to himself, I think this is enough of an emergency. Stephen switched his knee into super-human, took a few deep breaths then ran back on. He received the ball from the goalkeeper, did a few tricks then volleyed it from the other side of the pitch. The people at the sidelines couldn’t believe their eyes, Their jaws were on the floor! The ball was actually heading towards the goal! Their goalie didn’t expect it, and he was standing on the outside of the box! GOAL!!

  A huge cheer from the sidelines could be heard quite clearly, but the opposing team were amazed and shocked! “C’mon lads, that’s what I’m talking about!” But they were still losing by 1 goal and had to get 2 more to win. The opposite team took it back to the centre spot and passed to their defender. He tried to pass to their winger, but Stephen intercepted the pass and regained possession. He 360ed around the defenders and chipped it over the keeper. ANOTHER GOAL! Stephen quickly took the ball from the opposing net and kicked it back to the centre spot because he realised there was no time to celebrate as he ran back to his side of the pitch. Yet again the other team kicked off. Stephen chased the ball all around the pitch, desperately trying to regain possession and score 1 more goal. Luckily, it went to their chubby midfielder (who was by now a little bit hopeless) and Stephen tackled him and got the ball. In a desperate attempt to score he smacked it from just outside the box. Everything went in slow-motion. It was tense. But the keeper just couldn’t dive far enough and it was a GOOOAAALLL!!!!!  The referee blew the final whistle and they had won the cup! Stephen proudly held the cup above his head as everyone cheered

  My Story

  Leia Dobson

  “Haha! You’re fat and ugly” they would say. Another night of painful tears, sobbing quietly on the stairs I thought about them? Why were they like this?  What had I ever done to them? Millions other questions ran through my mind!

  Every morning I’d wake up and make an excuse not the go to that dreadful school, it was sheer torture, pain and misery. It’s like no one was there for me. No one. The day came where I had no choice, I had to go to school. I tried to tell my teacher but she did not believe me nobody did because they were the best in the school, better than everyone. Well so they thought…

  (to be conti
nued)

  Run

  Amy Foulner

  I was running faster and faster, my hot feet on the sharp gravel and stone. It felt like walking on glass.  I couldn't believe what was happening. I pinched my warm arm, no this was real. I was running away from the rebels, the rebels that took over my village. I didn't know where my family were, where my friends were? They could of got killed or were running (like me) away, far away. I might never see them again.

  Suddenly my brain interrupted my thoughts, I could see something in the distance, a long way. No it was coming closer and closer. I couldn’t make it out yet. Wait... I could see green shapes, it was a jungle. I frantically tried to decide what way to go, right, left or through the jungle. I could see to the right in the distance tanks, the army to the left close to a burnt village. I had to go for the scariest option. Why? I thought to myself, it always happens to me.

  I reached the jungle about 5 minutes later (out of breath from running so hard). The jungle looked even more frightening than before. I could hear noises, rustling and scarting. There were gloomy shadows. It was like a tunnel that would never end. No light! I slowed down and started to slowly plod. Why am I doing this? What am I going to do now? Something rustled under my feet… AAHHHH!! I need to get out of here NOW! But I knew I couldn't, there wasn’t any choice. I started running but there wasn't I another direction.  It was like being trapped in a giant maze! It started to slowly darken, like the darkness was growing on me. I knew I would have to sleep there, in the terrible jungle, all alone! I found a tree and started to climb. I knew I couldn’t survive all night on the ground. So this was the only one option, to shelter in a sturdy looking tree. I lay on the rough bark and closed my eyes. I thought about mum, grandma and my five sisters - Zelda, Enya, Debria, Sara and little Ezmie. What were they all doing? Finally my thoughts disappeared and I fell fast asleep.

  I woke up the next day, the sun beaming in my eyes. It was beautiful, the horizon was pink and the tropical birds singing. Well maybe the horizon was yellow and the birds were screeching but with the position I was in I wanted to imagine. I decided to climb down from my sanctuary. Gingerly I started to climb and I reached the bottom. My stomach began to growl and I knew I had to find some food. There must be something in this place I thought to myself. I hunted and hunted but there was nothing. I had to just carry on walking and by the end of the day I felt so tired.  

  Suddenly! I heard something, the rebels they were coming. I was so tired I couldn’t even pick myself up to run. WAIT! What was that?! Something snapped above me. I looked up and a saw a lone tree swaying mysteriously. I started to run but couldn't…THUMP! It all went black.

  The Magic Land

  Hannah Gordon

  Lily, Anna and Holly were racing round a sharp corner when WHOOSH! They were gone. All it took was a puff of smoke and glittering colours. The girls, after a long twisting journey, landed on a golden sandy lagoon.

  “Wow isn’t it beautiful!” said Holly, her long blonde hair blowing softly like a feather in the wind.

  There were black and white fluffy bunnies just like in a fairytale. Up ahead was a forest so dense it was a mouldy green. Anna suggested they went to explore so they strolled into the ahead. The forest was dark and damp and the trees were covered in slimy muck. There was nothing living yet something stirred. It felt as if they were being wached! About an hour later of many twists and turns they came out the other side. It was the complete opposite.

  Down a steep gritty slope was a toadstool about the height of an 8 year old child. It sloped a bit to the left but looked cosy enough. Slowly the girls edged towards it just to make sure no one saw them. Inside it was dark and very UNhomely. An old rotten sofa lay in the centre of the small damp room. Suddenly a man emerged out of a dark corner and motioned his hand to his friends.

  “HELP!” cried Lily.

  They were surrounded. The men tried to attacked but they held them off by punching violently. They soon gave up and locked them in a cold steel cage. The key was hung on a hook on the other side of the room. There was no hope now. Then there was a loud knock at the door. Who could it be?

  A police officer walked in. He had a plump and happy face. He released them without hesitation. They started on their way stepping carefully in the midnight forest. Something with 6 fingers clutched them tightly round the neck almost strangling them. Its hands were large and rough with lumpy bite marks.

  “A war is coming.” it said in a deep strangled voice as if straining to speak.

  Its hands loosened from their neck and released them. They ran through a twisting vine like path coughing and spluttering as they reached a dead end.

  “What now?” asked Holly in shock.

  Lily shifted uneasily because for once she didn’t have a clue. They tried finding their way back but just became more lost until finally they found the same path they took at the start and started making their way back. When they arrived at the lagoon it was not as they had left it. Litter was scattered all over the shiny crystal sand making it lumpy and miserable. There were distant gunshots on the other side of the island.

  A few days later the war had begun. There were bangs then groans and shouts and death. Lots of death. The girls were told to hide in the forest and make themselves scarce. Holly was badly shot in the stomach and could barely breath until..... BANG BANG BANG. She was shot dead. Two kindly men took the other two distraught girls in a boat never to be seen again.

  Shipwrecked

  Nathan Guthrie

  How did I get into this mess? I thought to myself. I am HERE on a deserted island with only my dog Nelson for company.

  Only eight hours ago it was a beautiful day and I was on my dad’s boat. Suddenly, a freak storm blew in… It makes me shudder just thinking about it. But it happened so quickly… lightning… thunder… huge waves… brrrrrrrrr. Well, I’m stuck here if I like it or not, although my dad will be worrying about me.

  Success! I have now found shelter. It’s a few minutes from the beach but it is at least a roof over my head, well half a roof over my head as the other half had collapsed. I have made a fire with some waterproof matches that I found from the shipwreck that certainly warmed my body up as well as my spirits. I decided to go for a quick walk, leaving the hut to get warmed up even more. It was then I noticed a small castle on the hill. So I plodded off up the slope curious why there was a castle on this supposed ‘deserted’ island.

  When I reached to the castle I realised that it was more or less intact with huge oak doors and thick stone walls at least the length of my arm. It was quite scary to look at and… WHOOOOOO! What was that noise? I’m not going to be scared I thought to myself, I have my fearless dog Nelson by my side. Nelson’s hackles raised and a low growl came from his throat. Danger I thought to myself. Suddenly a brick fell from the battlements. I slowly crept carefully in through the massive oak doors… CREEEEEEEEEK!  What was that?! Every little noise started to send chills through my head. Odd sounds came from down the hall, a drip… drip… drip, screeching from a distant corridor, a whisper from the dark corners…Suddenly a figure appeared down the hall. I turned and fled as fast as I could down the hill to the hut. It was gone! Not completely, all was left was a pile of burnt sticks. Who could’ve done this? I thought when a shadow suddenly loomed over me…

  (to be continued)

  My French Adventures

  Calum Hall

  “Right we all know what we are going to do” I said.

  “Yes, Seamus” whispered Robert, Alistair and Tam

  “Well, let’s go.”

  I walked out into the castle courtyard and looked for the guards but no-one was there, they were all getting drunk at the Christmas dinner. It was a dark night, which was all the better because we were trying to escape from this cold, creepy castle. I ran up the steps to the top of the castle wall.

  “Take the ropes out.” I said to Tam, a cheery red haired man with hazel eyes and a short bristly beard. I took one of the ro
pes and attached it to the wall. We began to climb down the wall, which is easier said than done considering this was a 40 metre high with nothing to grip onto. We jumped the last 2 metres of the wall, landed with a thump and turned around. It was a beautiful sight, heather and mountains for miles in all directions. It reminded me of my home in Scotland except that this place was really in the French Alps.

  “Get a move on lads before they realise we’ve gone.”

  We set off at a jog across the valley but we hadn’t gone far when we heard somebody shout.

  “They’re over there men, after them!” I started to run. I looked over my shoulder and saw 25 soldiers starting to chase after us.

  “Keep up” I said to Alistair, a tall shaggy haired athletic man. They were gaining on us, we would never make it to the safety of the hills I thought to myself. We were going to have to turn and fight but for now I still wanted to believe we could make it rather than getting captured and put in that hellhole again. Suddenly Alistair stopped

  “We are going to have to turn and fight.” he said and for once I was outnumbered in our vote so we turned and took our swords out of our scabbards and raised our shields.

  Any minute now and we would be charged by the 25 soldiers. We would be captured for sure, I mean how can four withstand twenty five. I started shouting my Scottish war cry and plunged into battle. I bashed one soldier to the ground and parried another couple of sword blows while nearly cutting someone's leg off. We continued to fight like this for half an hour before we were surrounded by the battle wearied soldiers. We had been captured… again!

  “Set up camp!” shouted the leader and soon there were twenty five tents set up, not including the ones me and my friends were imprisoned in. I soon went to sleep but I was woken up in the middle of the night by someone poking me in the back.

  “Come on we are about to escape… again.” I turned around and saw Robert, Tam and Alistair leaning over me. I got up and quietly got dressed and sneaked outside, then I tiptoed to the edge of the camp.

  “THEY’RE ESCAPING!” a guard shouted.

  I began to run.

  The Nightmare

  Emma Hart

  “Sally, Sally wake up Sally I think there is something in the cupboard!” said Lilly panicking.

  “What is it!?” said Sally sleepily.

  “The cupboard, it’s glowing.” stuttered Lilly

  Sally walked over to the cupboard, it really was glowing! She opened the cupboard, half-expecting all her friends to jump out and scare her by playing a prank on her but Lilly came over and stood next to her. She opened the cupboard doors and something, she did not know what, but something sucked her into the cupboard.

  “Where am I and where is Lilly?” thought Sally to herself.

  “Ew… what is this?” said Sally aloud. She had woken up in a tar like substance. She looked around her all she could see was gruesomeness and horror; the buildings were cracked, it was dark and gloomy. Where was she? She felt like she was in a world of nightmares.

  All of a sudden a minion, maybe it was the devil but whatever it was it was big, red and scary.

  “Hello and welcome to my world where no one is happy and I make sure of it !” said the devil.

  “Who… who are you?” stuttered Sally with fright.

  “That doesn't matter, but if you ever want to see your precious Lilly again we have to play a little game.”

  “Whatever it takes” said Sally. She felt a cold shiver go down her spine. The next thing she knew she was at the top of a volcano, it was hot and misty and she could not see a thing “What was going on?” said Sally to herself. Then there was a voice familiar to the one the ‘thing’ had was it in her head she will never know but it said something it muttered “If you cross the rope bridge without falling off then you can get your Lilly back!” Sally thought about it then replied with “But… but… there’s no bridge.”

  “Well we can fix that…” replied the devil, in a flash a rickety, unstable looking bridge appeared.

  “But I will definitely get Lilly back?” she replied.

  “Yes” said the devil impatiently.

  “Fine, I’ll do it but what happens if I fall off?”

  “… are you going to walk over or not?”

  Sally took three small steps towards the edge, she looked down all she could see was the molten lava. It was a horrible red colour and looked gloopy. She was ready. She took two more steps until she was on the bridge. She was doing it, she was actually doing it. At the middle already she thought to herself but suddenly she could feel something beneath her feet it was a rumble a vibration? The next thing Sally knew she was dangling off the edge.

  She was tired and sick “Should I just let go?” she said outloud. “No I can’t.” she pulled herself up and scraped her toe off the… AHHHHHHHH.......

  She woke up had it been the most horrible nightmare. She looked over at Lilly’s bed, she was safely tucked up in safely in her bed. Suddenly she felt something was missing. Sally looked at her toe… all was left was a burnt stub.

  Magical Story

  Jennifer Hood

  Poppy Simmoth looked into a mirror, she saw a brown haired, blue eyed, average height girl staring back at her. She started to think about her two best friends Lily and Megan and all the fun memories she had had on holiday last year.

  Coming out of her daydream Poppy decided to go for a run outside in the forest to get to the park which everyone called the Locke. All her friends were waiting for her so she better get there quick. Then her phone buzzed violently in her pocket, ‘Who could this be?’ and she wondered to herself, it was Lilly.

  “Where are you?” asked Lilly.

  “I’ll be there soon.” replied Poppy.

  But something distracted her, something that was big and dark. She didn’t know what it was but it was coming from the forest. Suddenly all Poppy knew was that she was falling down a scary dark hole. She landed with a crash and found herself in the middle of a magical land in the middle of nowhere!

  Looking up Poppy saw fairies, dinosaurs and elves. Lilly was there too!

  “Help!” screamed Lilly.

  “What’s going on?” they exclaimed together in unison.

  A beautiful talking bird flew by and started to sing “I can help you find your way out to the other land.”

  The girls stared speechless. They eventually found their voices and squeaked nervously “… where are we?”

  “A magical land but it’s not time for you to leave…”

  “Come on Poppy!” Poppy’s mother called “You dinner has been on the table for ages.”

  “I’m coming!”

  Her mother’s voice snapped her back into reality. It had been another one of Poppy’s daydreams. The next day she told Lilly all about it and they laughed and giggled about how silly it was.

  Going to bed that night Poppy thought about how imaginative she really was and how ridiculous it was to travel to a magical land. However when Poppy’s mother told her to get downstairs for breakfast she was nowhere to be seen.

  Maxamillion & His Name Home

  Luke Hunter

  Well it all started when I was scratching in between my legs. I do that a lot. Suddenly the phone rang distracting me from my blissful scratching.

  “Hello” says Lily, the owner of dog adoption centre that I’m stuck in.

  “Er… Hi, I’m looking for a dog, like a Shih… Tzu?” said the voice on the other end of the phone.

  “Of course,” said Lily “We have many of that kind. Theres Harry, Nevel, Fred, Fondue, Ronobee Jr, Dave and Max…”

  That’s ME, I’m Max! Sorry, calm the cheese Max, calm it.

  The next day I was prepared, so very prepared. The door opened, I stood up tall, put my cute face on (even though I already have a cute face - It’s a gift!) and watched as an old lady walked in. Typical. I put my little cute face to work and this is what I get! Lucky me. But it turned out that the old lady wasn’t the on
e for me. The person who had phoned had come in when I was asleep because I woke up in a big four wheeled object.

  I found out that my new owners are called Susan and Scott and they live somewhere that sounds like Currie. I love curry! I heard Susan say something like vistors.......coming.........soon but I didn’t really listen. I should of because I would have known what was coming next.

  HELP ME! I was literally panting like a… well like when you’re running around your garden at 15mph with a crazy dude called Luke. WOW! I feel better now. So after my great exercise session with Luke I slept, oh man did I sleep. When I woke up I found Luke eating a brownie with a man called Hugh and a woman called Judith. After they left I got a biscuit but that’s not as good as curry is it?

  It was 9:30pm and I was ready. I scanned my paw over the biscuit tin. It flashed green. A tile in floor opened and I jumped down it. I landed in my little car and pulled out my iPod and out blasted the Mission Impossible theme. I zoomed off in my car past the other dogs in the neighbourhood. Suddenly, I stopped the music.

  “Hello Max.” said Gary the Greyhound.

  “Are we ready?” I asked.

  “Yes!” Gary replied. ”Yoko is with Allie on the roof.”

  “Let’s Go!” I said.

  I was ready. My night time job was starting. I was no longer the sweet little doggy that gets out of breath ALOT, nor was I the little woof woof that got annoyed by Dave, or even the little doggy that is the world record holder for quickest biscuit swallow!  I was now Maximillion. WOOF!

  (to be continued)

  The Flames!

  Chloe Hutchison

  “Well boys and girls….”

  AAHH the fire-bell rang, everyone lined up and ran outside!  Waiting outside in the freezing cold, Jay remembered he hadn’t seen Sam, he hadn’t appear in the line. Everything was running through Jay’s head and he didn’t know what to do but he knew one thing, he had to find his best friend! One tear struck to Jays eye while he thought to himself ‘should I put my life at risk…’   Walking s-l-o-w-l-y to the school door he raced in to save his best friend

  Running as fast as lightening through the fire and flames he heard a voice! “AHH… who's there ?” shouted Jay. There was no reply but Jay couldn't stand waiting any longer. The school was falling apart but Jay wouldn’t leave until he found Sam. Jay could smell the burning of the walls and paper and he started to cough. By now he was getting worried and started to think where Sam could be. All of a sudden Jay thought he could hear something, was it the fire brigade? Jay could also hear something else, something that sounded like shouting so he kept running until he got closer to the voice. He ran to a window for help but no one was there. Everything was suddenly silent...  then BANG and BOOM!!!!  All the windows shattered and Jay screamed.

  Jay ran out the room and carried on running through the flames and fire. He saw something moving in the distance. Jay was sure he saw something moving, was it someone waving their arms and legs? It was very hard to see what it was because of the smoke and flames. Gradually the something began to take shape, Jay couldn't believe his eyes… it was SAM! Sam was cramped up in a tiny little corner choking and it looked like he couldn’t breathe! Jay ran over to get him. BOOM! Jay fell over a part of the building. He really hurt his foot and as much as he wanted to move he couldn’t. He tried to get up but it wasn’t working for him. The flames were getting bigger and bigger! Jay looked over at Sam pleadingly... BANG a massive part of the school fell on top of them…

  … Jay lightly opened his eyes but he couldn’t really see where he was, he felt his head and felt a very big bump. He tried to open his eyes again and looked around the room, it began thinking to himself ‘I must be in a hospital’. A nurse walked over to him to give him some medication and almost immediately he felt more relaxed. However he still felt really worried and scared because he didn’t even know where Sam was. Was he rescued or was he gone? The nurse walked back over to his bed and said to Jay “Everything will be ok, your mum is on her way to come and see you.”

  Jay replied “Okay, where is my friend Sam?”

  “He’s in the bed beside you behind that curtain.” the nurse said handing Jay an envelope.

  He opened the envelope and on the front was a picture of a fire engine. Jay looked down and smiled for the first time in a long time.

  One Way

  Charlie Jeffery Hood

  Agent Luc Crochet  and Agent Jule Gaudan were sent to Mozambique to recover the vast amount of money stolen from the Bank of England.

  Step one was to climb the side of the mansion. So that’s exactly what they did. ‘Step one complete’ thought Luc to himself. Step two was to get in through the concealed air vents.

  “We can get in here” whispered Crochet as they slid through the narrow gap.

  “There is no way to get to the money from our current location” said Gaudan quietly.

  Two guards came over and they were soon sent to a better place. They hid their bodies in the a close by cleaning cupboard and changed into the uniforms. They used them to get to the secret safe. Leaving the building with the money is going to be tricky thought Gaudan. When they got to the safe room they knocked out all the guards and started to crack the safe. After w while of lock picking the safe opened and they began to load all of the money onto a waiting truck in the garage.

  Suddenly... a noise… the alarm! Both agents started the truck and left. Well they escaped the mansion but they haven’t escaped the guards.

  “We must get to the airstrip!” shouted Luc.

  Soon cars started to follow them and they had to think fast. The cars bashed the cars and with a lot of skill pushed them off the edge of the cliff. Just before they all met their doom, one guard jumped off and grasped onto the speeding truck. He pulled out his gun and tried to shoot him in the Gaudan’s head injuring her but quick thinking made the car swerve and the guard soon met his end.

  “Least it can’t get any worse” said Luc.

  But it did. Helicopters came out of nowhere and started firing. After a few minutes she was still alive, that was a miracle. More sounds came now, another helicopter except this time it was friendly. The next noise that came was the sound of explosions and a strange silence. Finally both agents made to the airstrip, loaded all the money onto a waiting plane and Left for Britain.

  “It was only done one way, my way” explained crochet.

  Nobody Knew

  Taylor Marwick

  “Ok mum, bye!” said Lucy.

  “When is dinner?” asked Tommy.

  “Dinner will be in 10 minutes!” Lucy replied.

  Tommy came running through the kitchen just when Lucy said “Dinner, Dinner, come and get it”. Tommy jumped right on the couch and started digging in. While Tommy was eating his dinner, Lucy went upstairs and ran a bath for after dinner, to clean Tommy’s mucky face. Everything is going well thought Lucy. He thoughts were interrupted by Tommy as he started to shout “I’ve finished, I’ve finished!”

  “Tommy get in the bath!” shouted Lucy.

  He ran upstairs and jumped in the bath with a massive SPLASH!! When Tommy was in the bath, Lucy started to wash the dishes. Once the dishes were in the drying rack she shouted up the stairs

  “Get out of the bath!”

  Tommy got out of the bath and went to get his jammies on. Then he went down stairs and watched television. What a nice relaxing night it was turning out to be.

  Suddenly Lucy heard footsteps up coming from up the stairs. She went through the kitchen and picked up a sturdy wooden spoon and came back through to the living room and turned off all the lights. Tommy started to scream but Lucy told him to be quiet. Walking slowly and quietly up the stairs just like a church mouse she thought to herself ‘WHO COULD THAT BE?’

  She turned on all the lights and opened all the doors to the rooms but no one was there. Lucy heard a scream downstairs… AHHHHHHH!... with a BIG BANG right after it. Lucy ran down stairs and opened the living room
door. Tommy was just sitting there but only he was looking at the floor and not saying a word.

  Lucy thought to herself ‘What should I do?’ She picked up her phone and started to text her mum saying you need to come home now because something is seriously wrong!”

  Her mum got the text and came right home.

  She asked Lucy “What’s the emergency?”

  “Tommy will not say a word and he is only looking at the floor.”

  “Well we will talk about it tomorrow, so lets all go to bed.”

  When they woke up the next morning, Lucy went to Tommy’s room and there was no sign of him.

  NOBODY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED!!

  Mission

  Eve Russell

  Have you ever had to leave your home? If you have then you might feel like Lily, Leia and Louis Hall. They all had to leave their home to go on a secret mission to the vast Himalayas mountains.

  Getting suited up in their spy gear and then boarding a plane to the Himalayas, they were ready. During the flight a suspicious man in a black suit came up to them and said in a very deep voice “Are you spies?”

  “No of course not” they chanted back together but somehow he knew that we were lying so they ran for it to the back of the plane. Soon they saw one of the Himalayan mountains out of the window but the plane changed route and started to head back to Europe. They knew they had to get off this plane and jumping without a parachute seemed like their only option. Luckily the plane flew ridiculously close over the summit of a tall mountain and they landed in the soft snow, shame since they needed to be at the bottom.

  “How are we going to get down?” asked Leia.

  “I don’t know” said Louis.

  “I know!” said Lily quickly.

  So they used some of their supplies to make a sledge to go down the mountain. The ride was very rough and bumpy all the way down the mountain. A heavy snowstorm came down on them but luckily a cave provided some shelter. It was in this cave that two mysterious men sneaked up behind and grabbed them.

  (to be continued)

  Borg Invasion

  Lachlan Sloan

  Starfleet Security Log - Stardate : 46379.1

  The war with the Borg is going very badly even with the help of the drones from Unimatrix 0. The 7th Fleet has been equipped with antiproton weapons and bio-neural warheads but to no avail. They have also been sent the specs for transphasic torpedoes though these are only as a last resort. They have been dispatched to destroy a small Borg installation in the Mutara sector.

  Onboard the Enterprise E the crew is dutifully attending their ship wide responsibilities. “Captain, incoming priority one transmission from Starfleet command.” reported Commander Martin Madden anxiously.

  “Put it through down here.” said Captain Picard.

  “Captain there is a serious situation with the 7th Fleet, they’ve encountered a cube on course for Earth. The commander of the cube is.....” said Admiral Nechayev.

  “I already know. Locutus!” said Picard with venom in his voice.

  Picard tapped his combadge.“Number One set a course for that cube, maximum warp. ENGAGE!”

  (to be continued)

  Trouble In Tokyo

  Glen Slorance

  “Tough day today” mentioned Jamie.

  “ Aye, one of the hardest” replied Sam. Jamie Carter (Scottish) and Samuel James (English) were best friend  MI6 agents who are on a mission in Tokyo, Japan. “I’m so happy we escaped Yang Tou”

  “Yeah, who would have thought he’d have had such a big gang”

  “Heh, such a long alley for such a long day” mentioned Jamie.

  Jamie and Sam had been chasing the biggest fugitive in Tokyo all week until his gang started attacking them but they eventually escaped and are now heading back to the hotel that they are staying in.

  “What’s that smell? It smells like a sewer mixed with dung and rotten eggs,” said Jamie as he looked up “He could be anywhere right now, eh Sam?”

  There was no answer. As Jamie turned he said “Why are you suddenly being so quie....” he stopped. Sam was gone!! As Jamie was panicking he noticed a door being shut further down the alley. Jamie sprinted down and slowly and quietly opened the door and walked in.

   It was an old abandoned warehouse. You could tell because there was nothing on the shelves and there were cobwebs everywhere. “HELP, HELP” screamed Sam as Jamie noticed him hanging on a wire by his feet above turning gears.

  “How the heck did you get up there? I mean seriously how stupid are you?” said Jamie. Samuel replied “One, I’m not stupid and two, he put me up here.” It was Yang Tou.

  “Yang Tou I thought we escaped you”

  “Yang Tou thought wrong then, now I want to play a little game… you die or he does”

  “Don’t try to trick me, I know that if you kill me then you will just kill him after. I’ll never answer”

  “Fine then, I think you’ve made your decision” Yang Tou pressed a button on a handle in his hand and made a runner

  “NO, SAM!” screamed Jamie

  “PLEASE HELP ME!” But it was too late.

  Jamie waited there for a couple seconds in stunned disbelief and then thought that he wasn’t going to let Yang Tou get away with what he had done. He sprinted out of the warehouse and shouted for a taxi as one passed by. The taxi stopped and Jamie entered and told the driver to follow a black car ahead of them. He knew that was Yangs car because earlier in the week as Sam and Jamie were being chased he precisely remembered that car being there. The Taxi followed the black car all the way to Tokyo airport where the car stopped and Yang Tou exited and entered the terminal building. Jamie followed him hiding in the crowds till they got to the metal detector where as Yang walked through the detectors they went bezerk.  Yang Tou sprinted past the security towards the connection tunnel. Jamie chased him and soon they were both in a stationary aeroplane. There was nobody on the plane except Jamie and Yang Tou who were staring into each other’s angry eyes.

  “You will never get away with this” said Jamie

  “Are you sure?”

  Yang Tou pulled a gun out from his back pocket and pulled the trigger facing Jamie. Jamie commando rolled towards Yang and swept his legs so that he came crashing down on the ground. Jamie snatched Yang Tous gun and points it at him.

  “Your crimes will be avenged”

  BANG!

  The Great RIKE

  Danny Stitt

  “Rike! Rike! Come in Rike!”

  That’s all I heard. I still can’t believe my blue tooth still worked after that… yeah, after all that. Anyway if I’m going to tell you a story I might as well tell you it from the beginning. Hi, I’m Rike. I’m a spy robot, yes a robot, and I have feelings as well as all that mamsy pamsy stuff just like you, only I don’t show mine. I was built in Chicago and shipped over to London to work for her Majesty's Secret Spy Sgency. Oh my gosh, I still can’t get enough of that SPY agency! Anyway It is the 2nd of January and the year is 3000, yesterday on the 1st Mich the evil mastermind… he’s not a robot by the way, he is a human. Now… em’… back to the story. He has this whole ‘rule the world’ freaky obsession and his plan was to shoot a mind control gun over the city, well I think it was a stupid plan. Anyway I don’t think he really looks evil, he’s such a small man with a long nose, HUGE feet and very fat and a ginger afro! Anyway I had to do something about this rule the world thing so I did do something…

  By the way did you know Mich has EVERYTHING he has a skyscraper, a car (not just any car, a sports car) and oil, lots of oil plus he has a super comfy bed. I have always wanted a bed, I sleep in a in a box but at least mine is well… cardboard. But anyway back to the story well I smashed a window and into the skyscraper I go thinking ‘THIS WILL BE EASY!’ only it totally wasn’t, this great big thing hit me.

  Well this thing I left out were Michs’ other robots I used to be one of them other robots  they are theT6 squad (there are only 9 left in the world)
and one of them is me Mich stole them when they were in their cardboard boxes. But anyway I jumped straight into the fight. So okay the smartest idea but I’m not too smart. So two of the grabbed my feet, two more yanked my arms, two clung onto and one held my head while two smashed me in the face. Ugh... it all went dark...

  … when I woke up, it was so dark, scary and stunk like the public toilets. Oh my gosh, I was there... I was THERE! I could believe I was sitting at the top of Mich’s skyscraper (his secret lair where he does all his nasty work) but I couldn’t move. Mich had taken out my hard drive and when that happens the only thing that I can move is my left big toe. And let me tell you, Mich is a little bit like me, not smart. So dumb Mich didn’t count on my smart creator (Mr Sith) knowing I was dumb, so he designed me with a SUPER STRETCHY TOE when my hard drive got knocked out. How cool is that?! Anyway, I stretched my toe and just managed to trip over the a T6 robot. And get this his fell hard drive fell into ME! now I can really move, for real. let me tell you something, Mich is rich but he really needs a cleaner. AHHHHHHHHH! Suddenly, all I saw coming out of the shadows was a... small... ginger... afro. My natural technical instincts identifed it as most likely an overgrown cat. Well, I went over to it (I told you I’m dumb) and it hit me!

  “You wanna fight!?” shrieked this supposed little cat.

  I didn’t think much of that so I threw it out the window... wait! That wasn’t a cat after all, it was Mich’s son, Rich! I threw a seven year old out the window! A weird seven year old! my human feelings made me feel soooooo guilty but my computer brain told me to keep calm and carry on.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!”

  What’s this? Another ginger cat? “You’ve killed my son!” screamed Mich. I had a feeling that this cat wouldn’t go out the window so easily. I grabbed this so called cat and tried to throw him out of the window but he grabbed on my super stretchy toe and pulled me out aswell. To make a long story short, we both ended up out the window. As we were falling i heard Mich screeching and I saw that seven year old ‘cat’ hanging by his underwear on a flagpole (can you imagine the wedie? i’m glad he was okay though).

  “You’ll regret this” screamed Mich as we feel through the sky... THUD! Mich landed in a smelly bin but I... landed in the middle of the road where three lorries filled with concrete blocks ran over me. Like I said I can’t believe my bluetooth didn’t break.... zzzzt... that’s my story, thanks for listening.

  Super Spy

  Jamie Tilbrook

  Jack arrived at the secret location of his luxurious, golden plated, memory foam seated, gadget filled interior private jet. He walked up the steps to board and sat in his plush seat. He started to think about the mission ahead and wondered if he would be able to track down Sophi Belton the most wanted computer hacker in the world (also known as Jack’s arch enemy).

  The jet took off with a whoosh. Jack looked out at the beautiful wildlife below while he went to the bar and asked for a Martini. As he sat back down Jack started hearing weird noises coming from the engine. He put down his crystal glass and started walking towards the cockpit. Jack stumbled as the plane suddenly got faster and faster. ‘The noises have stopped for now’ Jack thought in his head. He made his way up to the pilot and asked “What happened to cause the plane to move?”

  The captain replied “I think it was just interference, nothing to worry about.”

  Jack walked back to his seat but started to hear those noises again. The noises kept on getting louder and louder but the rest of his spy team couldn’t seem to hear them. Eventually it got too much. Jack decided to check on the status of the engines and climbed down to the engine room. He knew the wind could seriously knock the plane and he could die if he fell down those steep stairs. Jack climbed down the stairs holding on for his life as the plane tipped from side to side. He finally dropped to the ground but had to do a backflip to stop himself falling on his head and majorly injuring himself. While inspecting the engine, he could see that it was making terrible screeching noises. Jack looked around the edges of the engine to look for a anything out of place but there was nothing. But wait… Jack looked up and there it was, a tiny little device that was almost invisible to the human eye stuck on the top of the engine. He tried to pull it off and with a forceful tug it did but not without stopping the plane’s engines. Suddenly the plane dropped. Jack grabbed the only parachute and jumped out the nearby hatch. Before he pulled the parachute release string a thought ran through his head and he wondered if like the plane the parachute was rigged...

  Primary 7B Collection

  PRANKSTAR NINJA…

  Mason Andrews

  “Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaneeeeeee what have you done?!”

  Zane was a Prankstar. He just pulled a prank on his Headmistress Leona. He painted her red.

  “Sorry” he replied indifferently.

  “Detention NOW” she roared “NOW”

  Later in detention Zane expertly scanned the room for an escape. He spotted an open window “Aha it’s open” he whispered. He was a ninja (as you may have guessed ). He leapt out of the window and did a forward cannonball of death on the way down (or should I say attempted one) only to fall in a heap on the green soggy grass.

  He rushed home to put on his robe and mask, only to notice a boy on the way back.

  “Who on earth are you?”

  “My name is Paul Stravinsky”

  ”What do you want?” said Zane in a voice that made him sound like he was from World Of War craft.

  “I want you Zane”

  “Why, and how do you know my name?”

  Meanwhile Zane’s friends Bugsnorter and Sandy (their nick names) were walking past Zane’s house only to notice Zane was gone. They went to his mum’s house to ask where he was

  “Excuse me Mrs Emanrus, but do you know where Zane is?”

  “I’m sorry, I don’t know, but he did say he was going out with his friends Bugsnorter and Sandy”.

  “That’s us” replied Sandy hesitantly.